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DESCRIPTION:New York City-based photographer Nicholas Whalen will share reflections
and photographs from the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and discuss
the militarization of "relief" efforts, corporate profiteering, and the
exclusion of grassroots mutual aid networks.\n\nThis work presents a
counter-narrative to US mainstream media portrayal of the disaster, which
served to justify the occupation/militarization of relief efforts, and to
cast the Haitian people as incapable of self-governance. Media focus on the
supposed violence by survivors of the earthquake supported the presence of
US troops and the withholding of actual relief. Whalen argues that US
troops were sent in to prevent the mobilization of those who seek
empowerment through self-organization and an end to the neoliberal order.
\n\nThe Western colonial legacy continues to suppress any local effort to
create a new Haiti based on self-determination instead of servitude.
Concomitant corporate colonialism contributes to the domination/sabotage of
Haiti's future and helps shape the nature of US actions. The race/class
based nature of the US-controlled international response to the disaster is
a manifestation of the 500-year offensive to forcibly submit everyone to
the Empire's capitalist quest for economic and military hegemony over
earth. \n\nThe hysterical US response speaks to the power of a community
long used to self-reliance and survival against unbelievable odds and whose
struggle for freedom from poverty, structural violence and oppression is
one of global human solidarity. \n\nSliding scale admission: $5-$10.\n
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/13/18661321.php
SUMMARY:People Need Water-Foods: A Photographer Reports From Haiti
LOCATION:Station 40\n3030-B 16th Street \nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/13/18661321.php
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